| S2276 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the minimum business corporation tax shall not be imposed upon any corporation for a period of three (3) years from the date of its incorporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2338 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school districts to conduct screening for dyslexia and other reading disabilities of school children who have exhibited one or more potential indicators using certain screening methods selected by the commissioner of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2378 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour effective January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2441 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the governor to submit a zero-based budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2440 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state budget office to produce a citizens' guide to the state budget, to be known as the "Citizens' budget report," that is easily readable and understandable by the general public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2993 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants a "Police Chief Emeritus" license plate to North Providence Police Chief (Retired) Ernest Spaziano.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2203 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2966 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that applicants for historic tax credits shall have ninety (90) days after the date of the commission's written determination certifying the rehabilitation to pay the required three percent (3%) non-refundable fee to the division of taxation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires (14) days advance notification of blasting by registered mail to abutters, owners or owners of record of any improved property within 500 feet from property line of blast site, including road/bridge/utility/public works construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the awarding of disfigurement workers' compensation benefits to scarring of the neck, face, and hands and prohibits them from being awarded less than one year from the date of the disfiguring event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes state aid a funding formula for compensation of school districts for the additional costs of students learning English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2205 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the town council of the town of Narragansett the authority to adopt a homestead exemption ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a bond referendum which would authorize the issuance of bonds for Affordable Housing in the amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), at the election to be held in November, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provision of chapter 33.6 of title 44 which grants tax credits to individuals or companies redeveloping historic structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Subtracts from the federal adjusted gross income, income attributable to the recovery during the tax year of any amount deducted in any prior tax year for the purposes of the calculation of the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2902 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and distribution of residential upholstered children's products that contain certain amounts of bromide or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows unused previously issued Historic Homeownership Assistance Act tax credits to be carried forward for tax year 2016 and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2745 | Intro
Sine Die | Utilizes rebates instead of tax credits and increases the available amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows drivers' licenses and state-issued identification cares to contain medical information to assist medical personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the recertification of food service establishments every three years, and the presence of at least one food safety manager during the hours of operation of food establishments which serve potentially hazardous foods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that taxes on estates in the possession of a tenant for life, or for a term of twenty (20) or more years, would be taxed by a municipality to the tenant when the lease requires the tenant to pay the taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2436 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to reimburse Central Coventry Fire District for all costs associated with compliance with Pub L. 2014, ch. 31.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2449 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the purpose of preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2148 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay a lighting district's energy bill, if the lighting district fails to pay it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows governor to designate a person to solemnize a particular marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2830 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes all criminal records, despite expungement, available to the department of children, youth and families, for any individual seeking certification as a child care or youth serving agency worker pursuant to §40-13.2 et seq.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the failure of a taxpayer to file a notice of account with the local tax board of review as a condition precedent to the filing of a petition for relief in superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions of the Rhode Island Development Impact Fee Act regarding the basis for impact fees, the need for impact fees for new schools, impact fees for low, moderate and age restricted housing, and how municipalities manage impact fees accoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
Committee heard |
| S2442 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates enabling legislation for cities and towns relative to new real estate construction and property with damaged buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the interest charged by cities and towns on delinquent taxes to 12% per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines coinsurance and prohibits insurance contracts or policies from using coinsurance to calculate and collect additional funds from patients, including mental health and substance abuse patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits each of the Coventry Fire Districts tax levy increases to the consumer price index, but not to exceed five percent (5%) in any one year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a ($1.00) fee per covered life per month to be paid when filing the annual report required of third party administrators of pharmacy benefit plans. The funds will go into a restricted receipt account and would be spent on opioid disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2053 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the interval of time within which a municipality must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits electric distribution companies from requiring security deposits from commercial customers who have maintained accounts for more than one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2343 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipalities to award bids for contracts in an amount less than $500,000 to a business located within its municipality if it is current on all taxes, its bid is within 10% of the lowest bid and it is willing to match the lowest bid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2970 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores certain provisions of chapter 16.2 as well as all of chapter 16.3 of title 23 repealed/deleted in 2015 Budget Act pertaining to definitions/licensing/operation of medical laboratories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2878 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds and includes marijuana concentrates into the definition of marijuana and clarifies the weight equivalent of marijuana and marijuana concentrates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a primary caregiver cardholder to possess a reasonable amount of unusable marijuana, including up to twelve (12) seedlings that would not be counted toward the limits provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the state's prohibition on adults using, possessing, and cultivating marijuana for personal use. Establishes a system of regulated marijuana retail distribution to adults 21 and older and imposes taxes at both the wholesale and retail level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Make an assault or battery upon a dwarf resulting in bodily injury a felony and would be punishable by up to three (3) years imprisonment and an assault resulting in serious bodily injury punishable by to twenty (20) years imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for additional appropriations by the general assembly to promote the capability of URI in the areas of environmental and agricultural research and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the town of Narragansett to establish a tangible business property tax exemption for local small business owners in an amount not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2840 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases number of permits for medical marijuana compassion centers from 3 to 6 with certain geographical limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the manufacture of marijuana using a certain process using compressed flammable gas would not be subject to the protections of the medical marijuana statute, excerpt of a compassion center cardholder complies with regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2227 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes the cultivation or production of marijuana from the definition of "plant agriculture".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2108 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and regulates the use of electronic marijuana delivery system products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2333 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DMV to issue driving privilege licenses/permits to applicants unable to establish lawful presence in US which are not valid for ID purposes effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
